Couch-leg fastener



N. F. SPENCER.

COUCH LEG FASTENER- APPLICAT|ON FILED JULY 24, 1919.

.5 7m Patented Dee. 23, 1919,

FIG. 1.

A TTORiVE V8 NILES FRANKLIN SPENCER, 0F VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA.

COUCH-LEG FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Application filed July 24., 1919. Serial No. 312,941.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Nuts 1 SPENCER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Vallejo, in the county of Solano and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Tmpro vements in Couch-Leg Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in couch leg fasteners, and has for its object to provide a device of the character specified for permitting the couch to be shipped with the legs detached, and to be set up by unskilled labor when the couch reaches its destination.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a. perspective view of the leg in place;

Fi 2 is a top plan view of the holder for t e leg;

Fig. 3 is a partial front view of the fastener.

The present embodiment of the invention is shown in connection with the leg 1 of a couch 2, the leg being of usual construction, having a portion 3 at its upper end which is polygonal, square in the present instance, and separated. from the body of the leg by a shoulder 4:.

The fastener is of sheet metal, being formed from a suitable sheet of the proper weight, and it is composed. of sides 5 extending at a right angle with respect to each other, and flaps 6 extending at a right angle to the sides and outwardly from the sides. Thus the keeper so formed will fit about the square portion of the leg, as shown in Fig. 1, with the flaps 6 abutting the inner faces of the sides and ends of the couch body.

These flaps are provided with openings for receiving screws 7 or the like to secure the said flaps to the sides and ends of the couch body, and the portions 5 have struckup pointed lugs 8. These lugs point up wardly as shown in Fig. 1, and each portion 5 has two series of lugs, the members of each series extending transversely of the portion and being three in number in the present instance.

In use, the couch and the leg are shipped with the legs detached, thus providing for considerably less room occupied by the couch during transportation. When the couch reaches its destination the legs are simply forced into the keepers from below until the shoulder 4.- engages the lower end of the keeper. The lugs 8 are pressed into the square portion of the leg and prevent accidental detachment of the legs.

I. claim:

In a couch, the combination with the body and the legs, of a keeper for each leg, each keeper being secured to the body and being adapted to receive the upper end of the leg and having struck up lugs pointing upward to prevent accidental detachment of the leg when it i being driven into the keeper, each keeper being formed from a strip of sheet metal bent to form portions lying at a right angle and adapted to embrace the outer face of the leg, and a flap at each end of each of the said portions adapted to fit the inner face of the side or ends and having openings for receiving screws to connect the said flap to the side or ends.

NILES FRANKLIN SPENCER. 

